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- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 4 days ago:
2/5 - Decent troll effort, but I’ve seen much better around here. Get gud.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 4 days ago:
As a fellow American, I’m going to make a big assumption here and advise you to engage with more people outside. Lemmings are great and all but we do not represent the real world. I can say this has helped me and man, am I worlds better for it.
Right now, the internet is quasi-weaponized against everyone’s better mental health. A lot of people are being fed propaganda that aligns strongly with their beliefs, with many people being sucked into a narrow, amplified, and semi-fictional view of reality. You have to dig deep to find real journalism, facts, and then puzzle together a less biased worldview; few people are there to do any of that legwork for you these days. It’s all exhausting and a recipe for mental illness if you do it constantly.
Instead, try to get out there and just talk to one person; better yet a stranger. Even if it’s just smalltalk. Even if it’s about the weather with a librarian or a checkout clerk. ANYONE. If you can make your way to a club, mutual-aid hub, local meetup, whatever… that’s even better. The goal is to just verbalize with other humans. The rest will follow from there.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 5 days ago:
AFAIK, Cialis and Viagra (and their generics) are prescription only. So you can’t just have a discussion with the pharmacist to get those.
- Comment on Maybe, maybe not 5 days ago:
Ooh, you’re right. That’s a damn good aptronym if I’ve ever seen one.
- Comment on Solid advice 5 days ago:
Liquid advice.
- Comment on meat honey 6 days ago:
Fascinating. It’s worth mentioning that (normal) honey can be used to preserve meat, thanks to its antimicrobial and hydrophilic properties. I guess that’s what’s going on here too: they use a kind of nectar honey to keep the meat component from going off. That said, this kind of food preservation isn’t immune to botulism so do be careful if you try this.
Now I’m wondering when/how this behavior evolved. Did these guys come first, and honeybees figured out how to eat pollen as a protein source as an evolutionary step, the other way around, or separately at the same time from some parent species?
- Comment on Gaysadilla 1 week ago:
I’m at the Pizza Hut.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 1 week ago:
I was gonna say. This idea has been floating around for decades.
Bottom line: Yes it will work. It will also involve transporting nuclear warheads to another country, which probably violates all kinds of treaties and will set governments everywhere into a panic of epic proportions. The knock-on effects of nuclear contamination will be a problem for the local population, local water table, and local ocean currents. You can bet your bottom-dollar that these, and possibly more, problems will be shouldered by the soon-to-be-god-forsaken masses of whatever country eventually okays this idea.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
First I’ve heard of that. This is brilliant.
- Comment on Israeli tech CEO calls to 'limit the First Amendment' to prevent spread of 'lies' on social media 1 week ago:
Every time the preamble to the US Constitution and the first ten amendments (bill of rights) come under attack, I’m still impressed by who, when, and how it happens. Not only do we still have awful, abusive, people in power, but they’re horrible in the exact same ways that prompted these words in the first place. The founding fathers were kind enough to indicate that the very worst stains on humanity will hate these specific things, so never give them up.
- Comment on 80s and 90s anime starter pack 1 week ago:
Congratulations!
- Comment on public service 1 week ago:
Eh, it’s Facebook in a suit-and-tie. Rarely does anything get above the level of watercooler talk, job-fair friendly material, and hiring/training/talent influencers strutting their stuff.
Also, like Facebook, the most useful part of it is the built-in chat. It’s hard to stand out on the “feed” if you’re not a company, and most of your networking and job hunting happens in chat. The latter is crucial since recruiters use this to screen out robots and invalid candidates, and it’s your best opportunity to do the same. And you will get feelers from crafty LLMs pushing all kinds of sketchy “opportunities.”
Meanwhile, the slop that hits your feed is inreasingly AI-generated nonsense, awful infographics, techbro/ceo-bro influencer nonsense, and just straight-up corporate PR advertising. It would be better if people posted things, but nobody wants to say or do anything that would cost a job now or in the future.
- Comment on Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐 1 week ago:
like a movie or TV show.
Last one I went to, the staff were singing together while they cooked. It was phenomenal.
- Comment on Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐 1 week ago:
Poor executive control and possibly substances. Consider the dark side of ADHD where “fight” is the go-to response after getting overwhelmed, scared, provoked, or just too tired to think straight. It’s straight dysfunction to be sure, but many of us were blessed with other default responses to adrenaline and bad executive function.
- Comment on Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐 1 week ago:
Oh shit.
- Comment on Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐 1 week ago:
You could probably work with some artists to knock that together in Mugen or something.
A single-player Final Fight clone would work too, but it would be a handful of small stages: parking lot, inside the diner, and out back by the dumpsters. Destructive scenery and being able to use furniture as weapons would be a big plus. Game/mission types would be king-of-the-hill, time trial, survival mode, and boss rush.
- Comment on Put the shoes on 1 week ago:
Oh bother.
- Comment on Put the shoes on 1 week ago:
I’ve done the nudist camp thing. This is 1000% true. This also works if you’re “Donald Ducking it” and just wearing a shirt.
- Comment on Glorious cracked out wall kitten returns with more wisdom for the masses. 1 week ago:
Counterargument: the rear of your car is far more resilient to impact than the front. You can cope with backing out, but maybe your wallet/schedule won’t cope with a fender-bender to your headlights or front bumper.
- Comment on Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album? 2 weeks ago:
This is specifically a Dethklok track list. Some of these are kinda brutal.
- Comment on Paid for by...boobs? 2 weeks ago:
The problem is more with the perception of disrupting the “correct” social hierarchy. Conservatives have no trouble taking money from, or being served by their “lessers” in society. This includes sex workers. It when the underclass elevate themselves or exceed their “betters” do they have a problem.
In this case: driving a big showy pickup truck - a coveted symbol of buying power - that shouldn’t be obtainable.
- Comment on Looks fine to me 2 weeks ago:
One starts to get the impression that they should just have the archeologists dig the tunnel in the first place, and budget the project like one big find.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, C64 floppy drive “headbanging”.
IIRC this is because rather than ship a design with a limit switch or any position sensing at all, the drive software just rapidly slaps the read head home a bunch of times to ensure it’s properly aligned with track zero. I have a hard time believing this was to reduce part count, because the drive itself is a whole-ass 6502 computer; the sale price also reflected that. Instead, I think it’s a software fix for a “sometimes an issue” hardware problem.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What i love about the jump-humping thing is I’ve heard it involves a third party to move the bed for you, making it just the weirdest threesome.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Since “all dogs go to heaven” isn’t mentioned in the bible but is generally accepted christian doctrine, it’s technically dogma, which is way funnier.
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but don’t use a public service for this. Use a local LLM and maintain distinct profiles, one for each online account.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 2 weeks ago:
The only real question is: does it go “wooo wooo!” ?
- Comment on telepathy 4 weeks ago:
/me casually plugs controller into port #2
- Comment on Not gonna lie, I kind like it 4 weeks ago:
Hrm… People do act strangely when I drone on for long enough. You might be on to something there.
- Comment on Not gonna lie, I kind like it 4 weeks ago:
Wait, you guys are getting eldrich powers? All I got were dodgy knees and a moving hairline.